Why are kids games so disgusting now?

[zofranks]

Surely every child isnt obsessed with poo or snot! Sat watching the disney channel today and an advert comes on for a game called 'Pooey Head' you get to strap a poo to your head if you get it wrong, bloody hell WHO buys this rubbish...between that and doggie do do and gooey louie the snot monster...if anyone buys one of these for my dd its going straight back homw with them. Whats wrong with monopoly and ludo and the rest of the traditional games. Am i just old fashioned now?

And kids have always liked gross stuff.

What's that song,,"nobody loves me, everybody hates me, think I'm gonna eat worms, big fat squishy ones, wee thin squiggly ones, see how they wriggle and squirm," that's ancient!

It is NOT just you OP!!! I knew which games you'd be on about just from the title and I hate them too. My DC think it's SO UNFAIR that I won't let them have them

Cluedo is a game about murder, and Monopoly is a game about greed. Then there's Operation. Even the traditional games could be seen as nasty.

Children like toilet humour shock.

Hate them, would not refuse a gift but they would be quickly donated to charity shop, I don't care if it 'belongs' to my child I don't approve.

Kids just like toilet humour.
We have a child's rack at our library which is filled when we set up.

Books on farts, bums, pants, wees and poos fly off the rack. The ones left behind are usually the educational ones.

Yes, it is all about the poo. Even bloody Barbie had a pooing dog! surprised the poo isn't pink

But what harm does it do?

When I was a kid I loved reading Captain Underpants books!

We don't need doggie doo, my dcs can play it for real! No I was a disgusting little Herbert when I was little and would have loved them. My dcs didn't want gooey Louie, when I asked them.

Kids can like toilet humour, doesn't mean I have to. I refuse to buy doggy doo and gooey looey for ds. If he gets it from someone else then fair enough, but we won't be buying it for him. Yanbu op.

My children really don't like these games. They find the adverts vaguely amusing but quite revolting and they are not prudish kids - not averse walking round ( in the house ) naked jiggling their bits around and quite happily announcing their poos arrival in the toilet. I won't buy them and they don't ask for them. If anyone else bought them I think I would surreptitiously slide them out of sight till forgotten ! I have however succumbed to the sausage - mostly coz my in laws are coming and they have annoyed me and I shall enjoy watching my children make them play !

I honestly don't see the problem with them. They are GAMES...TOYS!!!! They are SUPPOSED to be just for fun!!!! You know...fun?

Anything that keeps my children laughing and entertained together is welcome in my house!!

Kids like toilet humour so will pester for the toys and they will sell a lot of them - that's why.

Gooey Louie must be around 25 years old? I saw it mentioned in a retro toys discussion recently!

Some people in here strike me as very precious, particularly given that lots of kids' (or family ) movies involve some level of toilet humor.

Gooey louie makes me feel ill. I really don't have a strong consitution where snot and phlegm etc., is concerned.

Dd wouldn't play those type of games either. She is way too mature (7)

It's not just you OP.......

It's definitely not just you. They're foul.

I forgot about garbage pail kids. They made me absolutely queasy when I was a kid, I fucking hated them

I hate them too, all the cartoons are gross as well. What's the matter with just being nice!

Fungus the Bogeyman is another snotty classic, first published in the 70s.

You are putting your minds into six/seven year old children's heads.....it's ridiculous!!! I take my four children out on country walks every day. We see dead as doornails, squashed, frogs, mice, foxes, squirrels....you name it!!! Eyes pushed out, entrails scattered....I turn my head away but my children squat down for a closer look!!!

Children just LIKE that kind of thing. And I honestly see nothing wrong with it!!!

I know....a game about murder is sound but God forbid you allow one about poo!!!